What is Liberty, Really?

In "The War on Negative Liberty" by Katherin Mangu-Ward, we are given two different types of liberty. Positive liberty in which government places bans and barriers against things which some people deem to be impeding on their freedom to succeed in life, and Negative liberty in which there is a lack of government or anyone telling an  individual what he or she can or cannot do. Mangu-Ward is in favor of negative liberty and so am I. Although some laws are necessary to hold a country together, some are just not right, and as citizens we have the responsibility to change what needs to be changed. The difficulties of changing the way things are, is that there are so many citizens, and they all want different things. The only time that government should step in, is when a group of citizens are being oppressed by the views of others. But who decides what oppression is and who is being oppressed? And the government can hardly pay for itself to keep running so how can we ask for help? I say that people should keep their opinions to themselves unless something is blocking their pursuit of happiness. I believe in the christian god, my neighbor might worship Satan, but so long as my neighbor doesn't actively disturb my job, family, money, and we don't need to discuss our religions, I can still talk with them at the block party barbecue, we can agree that the other neighbor's cooking is delicious, and the fact that we worship direct opposites is not a huge deal. If however, this nice satanist neighbor of mine decides to write to congress for a law that bans Christianity, then I'm going to be upset, and fight against it. Up until the point where someone threatens YOUR PERSONAL HAPPINESS and success, just shut your mouth and tolerate it.